Quotes by Brazilian Authors - Page 9

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena
Paulo Coelho
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.
Paulo Coelho
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.
Paulo Coelho
you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago,
Paulo Coelho
The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.
Paulo Coelho
The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time in the midst of an impenetrable darkness. A small area is lighted up: our civilizations, our sciences, our loves. We prove unable to define the place of the lighted area within a larger space devoid of light, and must go to our deaths unenlightened.
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
They are so very cultivated, so very rich and so utterly charming. At the end of each day, they all ask themselves: 'Is it time I stopped?' And they all reply: 'If I did, there would be no meaning to my life.'As if they actually knew what the meaning of life was.
Paulo Coelho
When I suddenly see myself in the depths of the mirror, I take fright. I can scarcely believe that I have limits, that I am outlined and defined. I feel myself to be dispersed in the atmosphere, thinking inside other creatures, living inside things beyond myself. When I suddenly see myself in the mirror, I am not startled because I find myself ugly or beautiful. I discover, in fact, that I possess another quality. When I haven't looked at myself for some time, I almost forget that I am human, I tend to forget my past, and I find myself with the same deliverance from purpose and conscience as something that is barely alive. I am also surprised to find as I gaze into the pale mirror with open eyes that there is so much in me beyond what is known, so much that remains ever silent.
Clarice Lispector
There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.
Floriano Martins
I protect myself by refusing to know myself.
Floriano Martins
The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.
Floriano Martins
Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.
Paulo Coelho
Finally there are those who saw at once that the question was a trap. There is no answer. Instead of wasting time grappling with that trap. They decide to act. They look to their childhood and look for what filled them with enthusiasm then and disregarding the advice of their elders, devote their life to it. Because enthusiasm is the sacred fire. They slowly discover, their actions are linked to a mysterious impulse beyond human knowledge. And they bow their heads as a sign of respect for that mystery and pray that they will not be diverted from a path they do not know, a path which they have chosen to travel because of the flame burning in their hearts. They use their intuition when they can and resort to discipline when intuition fails them. They seem quite mad. And sometimes they behave like mad people. But they are not mad. They have discovered true love and will. And those two things reveal the goal and the direction that they should follow. Their will is crystalline, their love is pure and their steps determined. In moments of doubt or sadness they never forget: I am an instrument, allow me to be an instrument capable of manifesting your will. They have chosen their road, and they may understand what their goal is only when they find themselves before the unwanted visitor. That is the beauty of the person who continues onward with enthusiasm and respect for the mystery of life as his only guide. His road is beautiful, and his burden light. The goal will be large or small, it can be far away or right next door. He goes in search of it with respect and honor. He knows what each step means, and how much it costs in effort and training and intuition. He focuses not just on the goal to be reached but on everything happening around him. He often has to stop because his strength fails him. At such moments, love appears and says: You think you're heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goals existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little. But as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
Paulo Coelho
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
What you need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward the dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
Paulo Coelho
Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you’ve stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.
Paulo Coelho
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Paulo Coelho
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
Paulo Coelho
She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow
Paulo Coelho
Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.
Nemo Nox
Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.
Paulo Coelho
Freedom - that word that the human spirit feeds: that no one can explain, and anyone who does not understand.
Cecília Meireles
SpyThough at the moment I am a prisoner, my spirit remains free. While everyone is fighting a never-ending battle to see who will survive amid so much bloodshed, I don't need to fight anymore, only wait for people I've never met to decide who I am.
Paulo Coelho
I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.
Paulo Coelho
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.
Paulo Coelho
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
Fábio Moon
I think that if we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange.
Paulo Coelho
If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange
Paulo Coelho
It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold!
Ana Claudia Antunes
Having unthoughtful thoughts for me is unthinkable, so much so that I cannot even think about that.
Ana Claudia Antunes
A brainstorm about the difference between rain and brain: a b, although both are juicy like water... but if it rained in the brain would that mean that ocurred a brainwash? and if so what would be the cure for that?? That's rough for sure. But if the rain plays mainly in the land would it land instead of fail to fall?? What's the meaning of it all? i'm a brainiac with some brainy thoughts..
Ana Claudia Antunes
I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
Paulo Coelho
After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never walked down before, you discover that your old “I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone much more interesting and adventurous and more open to the world and to new experiences.
Paulo Coelho
The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.
Paulo Coelho
We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not.
Ana Claudia Antunes
P71- if i do not love the world if i do not love life if i do not love people i cannot enter into dialogue.
Paulo Freire
Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.
Paulo Coelho
The whole composition reminds him of something he once had and that he isn't sure if he misses. He does and he doesn't at the same time. It is less the melancholy memory of an abscence and more the comforting evidence that it exists and is still part of the world.
Daniel Galera
,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.
Machado de Assis
A pact must be kept and a secret must never be revealed ...”Pact of witches
Pet Torres
I'm still looking for books about them, as well as I am used to feed food every day.
Pet Torres
more money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila
Maria Lima
We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination
Paulo Coelho
A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.
Veronica Rossi
Sometimes your dream is so special that... you can't kill it. You can't die even if you try. Life will find a way to fulfill it, and a way to keep you alive. Because the Earth needs dreamers to survive.
Haidji
A dream is always risky, for there is a price to pay.
Paulo Coelho
...you are different from me, because you want to realize your dreams, I just want to dream...I'm afraid it will all be a disappointment, so I prefer just to dream...
Paulo Coelho
The first time I saw a mermaid in my dream, and she looked so real...THAT.'s fishy!!
Ana Claudia Antunes
You don´t have to let it linger Within the palm of your hand, The tip's already in your finger:All beginning comes to an end.
Ana Claudia Antunes
What you still need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one ‘dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.’ “Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.
Paulo Coelho
Never stop dreaming,” the old king had said."Follow the omens.
Paulo Coelho
that's why I want you to continue toward your goal. If you have to wait until the war is over, then wait. But if you have to go before then, go on in pursuit of your dream.
Paulo Coelho
Then, sometime during the fourth year, the omens will abandon you, because you've stopped listening to them.
Paulo Coelho
Life becomes interesting for the possibility to fulfill a dream.
Paulo Coelho
When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.
Hélder Câmara
Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.
Paulo Coelho
Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
They spent days, nights, weeks and months talking, never accepting the fact that, good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice
Paulo Coelho